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Fox Glen Acres Family Camping Resort in Pennsylvania

  Nice big place.  Long pull-throughs.  A little generous with the gravel though. Couldn’t really get a good picture of how deep the gravel was.  The motorhome made a bow wake when we pulled in. The rig had to roar on the way out, but we got through.  Just to be safe, we waited until we were out on solid ground again before we hooked up the Jeep to tow. 
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I’m confused

Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  We all know that, but how about the speed of a ping pong ball? What if someone hits a ping pong ball right at you?  It will be traveling at a speed of about 50mph.  But wait!  What if the person hitting the ping pong ball is in a train speeding toward you at 100mph?  Now the ping pong ball is traveling toward you at a speed of 150mph. The speed of an object isn’t an absolute.  Speed only means something when it is compared to some other object.  Turn our train around and make it travel away from you at 100mph.  Have our ping pong player hit the ball the other direction too, and now the ball is traveling away from you at 150mph. But what if the train can travel at say, just over half the speed of light?  Okay, maybe it’s not really a train, maybe we could just call it a particle.  So fire a particle away from you at just over half the speed of light.  At the same moment that happens, jump on your train going just over half the speed of light the other direction.  What happened?  How fast did the particle just go compared to you? Or did it even happen?  
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Lights required when using wipers

 That’s what the sign in New York says.  We’ve seen the same sign in Florida with slightly different wording.  Something like “Turn headlights and wipers on when it’s raining.”  At first I thought it was odd, telling us to turn our windshield wipers on when it’s raining, but then I recognized the dilemma.  They don’t really care about wipers and lights going on together at the same time.  They just want to tell us to turn our headlights on when it’s raining; but if they only tell us to turn our headlights on, some of us won’t know to use our wipers as well.  If the sign reads “turn headlights on when it’s raining,” We’ll think they mean we can use our headlights *instead* of our wipers and then we won’t be able to see anything and won’t know why!  
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Migration

 As the day warms in the morning, they rise to find the thermals and continue their journey south.  A river in the sky of migrating raptors.  Broad-winged Hawks. (With a Turkey Vulture in their midst.) Shortly after the hawks, the Anhingas come up to continue their fall travels.  The Ruby-throated Hummingbirds swarm closer to the ground at our feeders.